For your Black Friday viewing pleasure?

Want to make Black Friday even blacker? Today is the 41st anniversary of the death by seppuku- ritual suicide by disembowelment – of famed and acclaimed Japanese author Yukio Mishima after a failed coup attempt.

“Celebrate” by watching 1995′s “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” written and directed by Paul Schrader (“Taxi Driver”), and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.